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2017-05-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Out: Global Warming Until Antarctica Melts And Floods Us All In: A Coming Little Ice Age That Will Last Decades

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The general assumption is the climate only changes slowly. 12,000 or so years ago during the period called the Younger Dryas, the climate cooled very rapidly. Perhaps as much as 5C in little more than a decade, and no one knows why.

Global warming might have been a problem in some places. Global cooling will be an unimaginable catastrophe.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-09 00:32|| 2017-05-09 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Shorter growing seasons, crops fail, people starve. Climatists are cut from the same cloth as the Venezuelan apparatchiks. Same end results.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-09 09:02|| 2017-05-09 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Yea, well, we could do with a bit of cooling

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-09 09:17|| 2017-05-09 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 We have developed short-season, cool climate varieties of grains and other food crops, just as we have long-season, hot climate varieties. Come the change, we can switch, though the changeover will lead to shortages for a few years, just as floods and droughts lead to temporary shortages now. In previous cycles, when the local farmers only had access to local traditional varieties, the prospects were considerably worse -- and Russia will have a new, and very profitable, export commodity that isn't oil.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-09 11:13|| 2017-05-09 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 An opportunity to return to the Neanderthal low carb diet.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-09 13:31|| 2017-05-09 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Seal meat.

Seal skin jackets...the latest in fashion. You won't even think about the cold.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-09 15:55|| 2017-05-09 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Zharkova, of Northumbria University, made the predictions by studying new mathematical models for solar activity.

She claims her models can predict the solar cycle with 97% accuracy, leaving little margin for error.

There must be some sort of virus that makes climate drama queens use 97% a lot.

Posted by lord garth 2017-05-09 16:52|| 2017-05-09 16:52|| Front Page Top

#8 97% is mid-way between 95% certainty and 99% certainty. It's kind of a code, meaning 'we are pretty confident, but we could be wrong'.

BTW any %age certainties coming out of a model are completely spurious and unscientific.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-09 19:43|| 2017-05-09 19:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Seal skin jackets...the latest in fashion.

Just the look for when you are out clubbing !

Posted by Classer 2017-05-09 20:51|| 2017-05-09 20:51|| Front Page Top

#10 #9 LOL

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-09 21:54|| 2017-05-09 21:54|| Front Page Top

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